Telepsychiatry Consultation for Medical and Surgical Inpatient Units

Telepsychiatry is becoming more commonplace in the provision of psychiatric care. Most commonly used in the outpatient setting, there is little available in the literature as to the use of telepsychiatry for inpatient medical/surgical consultation. We review the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ′s telepsychiatry consultation program which provides consultation to an outlying community based rural hospital. This paper examines the 69 telepsychiatry consultations which were performed from November 2014 through February 2016, looking at the patients served, common consultation questions, an d patterns of diagnoses and recommendations.
Source: Psychosomatics - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Source Type: research